The following remarks were made regarding the article “The First Step to HVAC Success Is Just Simply Showing Up,” written by Kyle Gargaro, editorial director for The NEWS, published Dec. 10, 2018.
It is just the society we live in these days. There is a general lack of patience, and when anything goes wrong, people want their pound of flesh. It is your job as the leader of your business to prevent your employees from taking the bait.
California has now signaled that it, too, intends to follow Germany down the renewable energy path. In September, the governor signed a bill requiring that 100 percent of the state’s electricity be generated by renewable energy sources such as solar or wind by 2045. This is an expensive proposition and will significantly boost California’s already high residential electricity costs, which are currently about $.20/kWh.
The following remarks were made regarding the article “Let’s Just HVAC and Netflix,” written by Kyle Gargaro, editorial director for The NEWS, published Dec. 24, 2018.
If I am correct, it lives in print, and I can easily pull the information up on www.achrnews.com to show anyone who will listen how smart I am. And if I am wrong … nobody will remember the silly predictions I made four months from now when this magazine is in a landfill somewhere.
The premiere of the documentary just happened a few weeks ago in Austin at the Heating, Air-Conditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) conference. It is called “Hot Commodity,” and it is a recruitment documentary for the HVACR industry.
According to a recent study by Valve + Meter, home service companies are not doing a very good job responding to customers. The study surveyed 466 home service companies, and only 60 percent of them responded within a five-day time frame. I am not great at math, but that tells me four out of 10 companies take more than a business week to respond to a customer — if they respond at all.